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Kenn Kweder:
Kenn Kweder:
Rick Perlstein for Rolling Stone: I have a young friend I’ll call Cecil. Cecil graduated from a prestigious liberal arts college on the East Coast in 2006 with a degree in political science. A lot of his friends were involved in political campaigns, and so, looking for work, he thought he’d try it, too: “You want to be involved in something that’s trying to make the world a better place. Something that’s mission-driven,” he says. So he got a job [...]
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Stay safe: The threat for damaging winds and tornadoes is increasing across the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Stay alert of the dangerous storm situation. A Potentially Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch has been issued for southeastern Missouri, southern and central Illinois, central and southern Indiana and western Kentucky. The National Weather Service issues a PDS Tornado Watch less than a handful of times a year. Multiple lines of severe storms are erupting from northern Alabama through central and eastern Tennessee and [...]
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This certainly sounds like a big factor, if not the main reason, for Snowe’s decision not to run for reelection. Maybe it was the final straw, since Snowe was also facing a primary challenge from the Tea Party: Last August, while Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, was in the midst of an intensive round of fundraising for her 2012 reelection bid, a four-year-old civil lawsuit alleging fraud by an education company in which she and her husband are heavily invested became [...]
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It’s also a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. Sorry! Back in 1990, the National Institutes of Health began funding a long-term study of stroke and cardiovascular risk factors among of urban adults. Known as the Northern Manhattan Study and housed at Columbia University, the project enrolled thousands of people from the community and subjected them to medical testing while recording their food-consumption habits. Among its results, a surprising one has emerged (recently published paper available here): people who drink at least [...]
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It’s astounding that they’re actually saying what the rest of us already know: WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, questions have lingered about the possible role of the Saudi government in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, even as the royal kingdom has made itself a crucial counterterrorism partner in the eyes of American diplomats. Now, in sworn statements that seem likely to reignite the debate, two former senators who were privy to top secret information on the Saudis’ [...]
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